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Turkey urges China to shut down Uighur camps

2019-02-09

Turkey’s foreign ministry has called on China to close its minority Uighurs camps, calling them “a great cause of shame for humanity,” state-run Anadolu news agency reported.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy in a statement Saturday said it’s “no longer a secret” that China has arbitrarily detained more than a million Uighurs in “concentration camps,’’ while highlighting that China’s Turkic Muslim population is facing pressure and “systematic assimilation” in the west of the country.